I think it's already been mentioned in this thread, but just to remind, only the most senior employees receive seven weeks, and that's after 28 years of service.
Canada Post - Huge losses
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I think it's already been mentioned in this thread, but just to remind, only the most senior employees receive seven weeks, and that's after 28 years of service.
USPS...
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Trump Eyes Privatizing US Postal Service, Washington Post Says
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed interest in privatizing the US Postal Service, the Washington Post reported.
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Given that there is almost 100% chance of another long strike in six months, you won't be the only business that runs with that plan. How many billion fewer items did this strike permanently remove from cp?
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Royal Mail...
www.ctvnews.ca
U.K. government approves US$4.6-billion takeover of Royal Mail by Czech billionaire
Britain's government gave the go-ahead Monday for the sale of Royal Mail's parent company to a Czech billionaire, paving the way for the postal service to pass into foreign ownership for the first time in its 500-year history.
That is a pretty complicated deal. Let's see if he can make it work... I think it will blow up big time. Royal Mail is in worse shape than Canada Post, AND has thousands of contractors... that he has to keep. Basically, the way I read it, he has signed up to do everything Royal Mail does today and he thinks he can make a profit. GOOD LUCK. This has been in the pipes for a while now.
Let's see if Reagan and " The Dragon Lady" were correct.
That.. and we made commitments to the other carriers when they expanded their coverage areas, created new routes and in a couple of cases.. are getting/building new facilities.
Mad Mike
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I think PP would not be in this position after 10 years at the helm. What might he do when he inherits the mess?
1) Start modernizing by fully implementing dynamic route management across the network. Then move to last-mile delivery schemes that support weekend deliveries and seasonal scaling so they can be competitive with other package carriers.
2) Bring back financial stability by eliminating direct-to-door and direct-to-mailbox delivery nationwide.
3) Reduce overheads by franchising every rural post office.
Mad Mike
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Not screwed it up as badly? I'm not being facetious, CPC was profitable from its formation as a Crown Corp in 1981.
Under Harper, they made an average annual profit of $114M/yr, and were profitable every year. (Note: in 2011 they posted a loss due to a one- time charge of approx 350M to settle a Crietien era pay equity class action suit).
When JT took over, they rode 2 years of profitability before plunging into losses. Under JT's regime, CPC has lost a staggering average of $418M/year, and is running at an annual loss rate of $1B/year today.
Another part of government where the budget was expected to balance itself.
And he actively took steps to cut cost-reduction measures that were already underway like superboxes for all.
Mad Mike
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I believe $31/hour and the dangers of walking and carrying a mail bag is a moot point - we shouldn't be delivering direct-to-mailbox anywhere in Canada.
I think the day of the mailman is ready for the history books. They've dodged that bullet for 40 years -- it's time to go.
For a guy who has been PM in waiting for quite a long time it's remarkable how little we know about Skippy's plan for the country.
People say a detailed plan is not his job now, he's in opposition, but still, there's very little info out there.
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Mad Mike
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55,000 union votes for $4B works out to a cost/vote of $75,000.
Cheaper than the gas plant votes for the provincial libs. There is no price to high to purchase a vote.
Think I wrote earlier , the superbox killed itself by not consulting ( asking permission) to pour concrete pads on municipal land and put up a box . You can’t just randomly do that unless your a National Railway , so they could get superbox back on track , but it would take years , the municipality pushed back with threats of lawsuits and removal. CP fd that up completely, not tbe liberal Govt.
But yes to a large degree , door to door has gone the way of the bread and milk man . It’s a dinosaur business model .
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But yes to a large degree , door to door has gone the way of the bread and milk man . It’s a dinosaur business model .
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Feds don't have to ask permission but they do have to follow the process. Expropriate a few sq meters of land, use old model with thousands of superboxes at central locations (service canada normally has a big parking lot, lots of space and few people working inside), etc.
CP screwed up for sure but killing conversion was a straight political game by JT.
""We promised to stop Stephen Harper's conversion to community mailboxes, and we stopped conversion to community mailboxes," Trudeau said in an interview"
"We have always said that we were going to respect Canada Post as an important service that Canadians rely on, that is going to require changes, but in the changes that we made, we would work with Canadians and we would not eliminate home mail delivery," he said.
BigEvilDoer
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You see, CP actually committed federal crimes by doing this.
As soon as there is a stamp / Indicia / Bulk Mail Markers / CP parcel information on an item, it is 100% up to CP to deliver according to the Federal Mail Act (1981).
CP has been illegally relabelling packages and sending via Purolator. There are thousands of documented cases of this across Canada. That’s why CP doesn’t want binding arbitration - they’ve committed several shady / illegal acts which would be frowned upon by an arbitrator.
As for people staying with alternate carriers - CP is by far the cheapest option to ship with *IN GENERAL*. Why would people want to pay $25 for a courier as opposed to $14 from CP?
BigEvilDoer
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Maybe cut back the 2.75 posties per position (55K posties / in depot unionized staff vs. 22K in Desk / Management) in desk/management roles?
Seriously… you have just under 3 posties per management. How does that make any financial sense?
Personally, I seriously wish that the Canadian Gov’t would reabsorb us as a federal employee. All those hundreds of millions of dollars of bonuses to management would be gone instantly. Let’s compare the books then.
